u/Psychological_Cod_45 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
My story I started studying code in 2019 using cheap resources like Udemy. I was finishing these courses and getting certificates but they didn't mean anything at all. So I decided to join the biggest coding bootcamp in the area I joined Codeup in June 2021 and overall had a go
u/michaelnovati replied ·
If it's any consolation I hear this story often and you aren't alone.
Bootcamps and some Redditors are all too fast to celebrate the job a few months later but they don't talk about the job being the beginning and not the end. It's a local maxima and there are lower lows and higher highs to come that you need to be prepared for, no matter if you went to the best bootcamp or got a six figure job out of it.
And you hit the nail on the head. It is impossible for bootcamp grads to compete head to head with top university grads.
Imagine the best bootcamp grad had gone to Stanford CS instead of 12 week bootcamp, the Stanford person of the same person would win 100% of the time. The bootcamp version might be done a heck of a lot faster and spent a heck of a lot less, but they are going to take some time on the job, probably at worse jobs with less talented coworkers, to work their way up. Comparing them to the Stanford version 4 years later, a lot of the person's success will depend on their own aptitude and smarts, and the ones who are better off are special edge cases people who didn't need Stanford or the bootcamp.
If this wasn't true then bootcamps would have replaced the university by now and universities would pivot. Not a single university I know of has made a single change to their degree programs as a result of the rise of bootcamps.